Xex 4.3.1 issues with HVM + drbd (qemu-system-i386 No such file or directory)

Xex 4.3.1 issues with HVM + drbd (qemu-system-i386 No such file or directory)

[Miguel Clara]

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I'm trying to use drbd disks in a FreeBSD HVM+PV guest but it seems Xnew
qemu doesn't want to do it, this is the error I get:


cat /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-freebsd-01.log

qemu-system-i386: -drive
file=drbd-freebsd-01,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cache=writeback:
could not open disk image drbd-freebsd-01: No such file or directory


I wil ltry with qemu-traditonal but wonder if this is a known issue...

The Dom0 runs on Debain 7

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Re: Xex 4.3.1 issues with HVM + drbd (qemu-system-i386 No such file or directory)

[Miguel Clara]

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qemu-traditional is a no go too, I get a different error, I think it in the
list before, I'll search about that, in any case I would prefer to have
this work with new qemu.


vcpu-set: watch node error.
[xenstore_process_vcpu_set_event]: /local/domain/4/cpu has no CPU!



On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I'm trying to use drbd disks in a FreeBSD HVM+PV guest but it seems Xnew
> qemu doesn't want to do it, this is the error I get:
>
>
> cat /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-freebsd-01.log
>
> qemu-system-i386: -drive
> file=drbd-freebsd-01,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cache=writeback:
> could not open disk image drbd-freebsd-01: No such file or directory
>
>
> I wil ltry with qemu-traditonal but wonder if this is a known issue...
>
> The Dom0 runs on Debain 7
>
>
>

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Re: Xex 4.3.1 issues with HVM + drbd (qemu-system-i386 No such file or directory)

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 23:51 +0100, Miguel Clara wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to use drbd disks in a FreeBSD HVM+PV guest but it seems
> Xnew qemu doesn't want to do it, this is the error I get:
> 
> 
> 
> cat /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-freebsd-01.log
> 
> 
> qemu-system-i386: -drive
> file=drbd-freebsd-01,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cache=writeback: could not open disk image drbd-freebsd-01: No such file or directory

At least some of these issues have been fixed in 4.4.0, I don't know if
they were backported to later 4.3.x or not.

I'd recommend using at least 4.4.0.

Ian.

Re: Xex 4.3.1 issues with HVM + drbd (qemu-system-i386 No such file or directory)

[Roger Pau Monné]

On 01/04/14 00:51, Miguel Clara wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to use drbd disks in a FreeBSD HVM+PV guest but it seems Xnew
> qemu doesn't want to do it, this is the error I get:
> 
> 
> cat /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-freebsd-01.log
> 
> qemu-system-i386: -drive
> file=drbd-freebsd-01,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cache=writeback:
> could not open disk image drbd-freebsd-01: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I wil ltry with qemu-traditonal but wonder if this is a known issue...

The issue comes from the fact that drbd block devices are not known 
until the hotplug script is executed, but even then, the resulting 
block device that's passed into blkback is not written anywhere (apart 
from the major:minor numbers written to xenstore). One solution to the 
problem is to use qemu-xen-traditional stubdomains, but this is not 
available with qemu-xen yet.

I have a crappy patch that fetches the major:minor numbers from 
xenstore after the hotplug script has run and passes that to qemu-xen 
command line, I think it should solve the problem, but I don't have a 
drbd setup in order to test it, could you please give it a spin?

If this works OK I can clean the patch and properly submit it.

---
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
index 8abed7b..7c903ab 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
@@ -42,6 +42,39 @@ static const char *qemu_xen_path(libxl__gc *gc)
 #endif
 }
 
+static const char *qemu_fetch_device_path(libxl__gc *gc, uint32_t domid,
+                                          const libxl_device_disk *disk)
+{
+    libxl__device device;
+    char *be_path;
+    const char *phys_dev;
+    unsigned int major, minor;
+    int rc;
+
+    if (disk->backend != LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_PHY)
+        return disk->pdev_path;
+
+    rc = libxl__device_from_disk(gc, domid, (libxl_device_disk *)disk, &device);
+    if (rc)
+        return NULL;
+
+    be_path = libxl__device_backend_path(gc, &device);
+    if (!be_path)
+        return NULL;
+
+    rc =  libxl__xs_read_checked(gc, XBT_NULL,
+                                 GCSPRINTF("%s/physical-device", be_path),
+                                 &phys_dev);
+    if (rc)
+        return NULL;
+
+    rc = sscanf(phys_dev, "%x:%x", &major, &minor);
+    if (rc != 2)
+        return NULL;
+
+    return GCSPRINTF("/dev/block/%u:%u", major, minor);
+}
+
 static int libxl__create_qemu_logfile(libxl__gc *gc, char *name)
 {
     char *logfile;
@@ -694,7 +727,8 @@ static char ** libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc,
                 else
                     drive = libxl__sprintf
                         (gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom,format=%s,cache=writeback,id=ide-%i",
-                         disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format, dev_number);
+                         qemu_fetch_device_path(gc, guest_domid, &disks[i]),
+                         disk, format, dev_number);
             } else {
                 if (disks[i].format == LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_EMPTY) {
                     LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_WARNING, "cannot support"
@@ -717,11 +751,13 @@ static char ** libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc,
                 if (strncmp(disks[i].vdev, "sd", 2) == 0)
                     drive = libxl__sprintf
                         (gc, "file=%s,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=%d,format=%s,cache=writeback",
-                         disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format);
+                         qemu_fetch_device_path(gc, guest_domid, &disks[i]),
+                         disk, format);
                 else if (disk < 4)
                     drive = libxl__sprintf
                         (gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=disk,format=%s,cache=writeback",
-                         disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format);
+                         qemu_fetch_device_path(gc, guest_domid, &disks[i]),
+                         disk, format);
                 else
                     continue; /* Do not emulate this disk */
             }